Vancouver Tourism

I have a few minutes to steal away for another Vancouver story. Much is happening at home, but you'll have to check out A+B's blog and Trisha's Diary for those. They are doing a much better job of it then me.

I fell in love with Vancouver this last weekend. I went there a really long time ago and have travelled through that airport a few times, but for actually staying in the city and being able to take it in... wow... I loved it so much. I often wonder why I am in Edmonton because I think it is a cultureless dump and when I go to someplace like Vancouver my heart sings. But I know that I know that I know I am supposed to be here right now. I know that the thing which will make Edmonton be beautiful is the spirit of God and I will pound away until my assignment here is finished or until the Glory of the Lord fills these streets again.

Anyway....

Alison, I think I might have answered your question on the comments of the last entry, so check there. I think it sounds like we got a fairly significant mix up in the communication. So check back there and see if what I said made any sense. It might not have... because I was typing that looped out on cold meds... pray for Kayle's head... it's bursting with snot.

A very, very cool thing which happened for me was to be able to help lead the Gen-X and young people in how to approach the "fathers and mothers" of the church. This is something that is massive on my heart - being a bridge builder between the generations. During one of the sessions the Lord lead us along that line - repentance between the generations for judgement and bitterness. Not just for the youth to the parents, but the other way as well. It got very intense to say the least.

I was able to speak to the young people for a little while and encourage them and talk them through the road that we all must travel in order to see our church truly unified. Something that people talk a lot about is church unity between different church bodies. Although that is a good thing, I often wonder if that is really what unity means considering all the other scripture out there concerning unity. I think it means unity between the 17 year old and the 87 year old. I think it means a life giving exchange and trust between the 23 and the 56 year olds. That's unity. Then the world will see we are one.

Anyway to make a long story short all us young people were eventually on our faces before the leadership and the fathers and mothers as a prophetic act of laying our lives down for the sake of God's Glory. It was a prophetic act to break the chains of the cycle of criticism and bitterness and turning those chains to ones that would bind our hearts together as one. It was so powerful as this is something BC hasn't really walked through yet. Alberta has great freedom for the most part, but you could tell that there was a great hesitancy for the young people to step out and take responsability for their lives and for the church.

This turned into a time of all of us on our knees together before the Lord, humbling ourselves and crying out that the Lord would come and take up habitation in our nation again. It was a frightening time of the presence of God on us all, as we knelt down and wept before our King.

This opened up an incredible door of opprotunity for me, but I will have to tell you about that later. It was profound and life changing to say the least. But I have to run now.

I was also going to tell you about how Amy got stuck in a wall overlooking the ocean at Stanley Park, but that will have to wait. And she really was stick IN the wall. Not on the wall, in it. So incredibly funny. But since we were tourists we felt like we had lisence to be a little dumber then the local population.